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I was stunned when I heard that the ballot initiative to provide healthcare for children by imposing a cigarette tax had been defeated. We hear all the time how important it is to provide healthcare for the kids and smokers are evil, right? But Oregon, of all places, decided not to tax one group to…

From a state that has never met a funding bill it didn’t love, NJ voters rejected funding embryonic stem cell research. I was completely shocked because the NJ voters aren’t usually that smart. In fact, I was quite bitter when I left the poll that I had just wasted my time. Glad to see that…

The Economist is importing its popular series of London debates to New York on Saturday, November 10. Join Richard Neuhaus, Walter Russell Mead, Barry Lynn, and Irshad Manji as they face off over the question of whether religion and politics should always be kept separate. Moderated by Economist editor-in-chief John Micklethwait, the audience will decide…

Sometimes I’ll come across a post by an atheist blogger about the need to keep religion out of politics, they want “policies based on scientific findings” and “reality-based government.” I’m not sure that science has come up with a solution for all of the problems we face and given the size of the spending bills…

It is absolutely brilliant! He attacks her right where she is most vulnerable, her inability to answer a question with a straight answer. If you haven’t seen it, you can watch it at Reformed Chicks. I’m so happy the Democrats have started to try to defeat her, it will make the Republicans’ job a lot…

David (and Jim), it doesn’t follow that if we allow torture against terrorists we should also allow it against all manner of domestic criminals. The premise of the best pro-torture argument is: while torture is normally reprehensible, there is one instance in which it clears the moral bar: if by torturing one person we can…

As I was reading descriptions of Hillary Clinton’s “For Such a Time as This” faith tour in South Carolina over the last few days I got to thinking about the 1990s, and the delight with which United Methodists embraced the First Lady, at the time arguably their most famous member. So I dug a few…

I’m posting a few back-and-forths from a recent interview I did with Democratic National Committee chairman Howard Dean about the DNC’s stepped-up religious outreach program, called Faith in Action. A couple of the more telling lines, in my opinion, are these: What I believe is not that the people disagree with our values–they believed that…

The Economist is importing its popular series of London debates to New York on Saturday, November 10. Join Richard Neuhaus, Walter Russell Mead, Barry Lynn, and Irshad Manji as they face off over the question of whether religion and politics should always be kept separate. Moderated by Economist editor-in-chief John Micklethwait, the audience will decide…

Why is Giuliani still popular with rank and file evangelicals? Whether by design or a happy byproduct, part of the reason is that Giuliani has compensated for his liberalism on abortion and gay rights through attacks on Islamofascism. They may seem unrelated but here’s my logic For many Christians, the war on terror is not…
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